N73 road (Ireland)

N73 road
Bóthar N73
N73 Mitchelstown bypass (formerly N8)
Route information
Length	34.296 km (21.311 mi)
Location
Country	Ireland
Primary destinations	(bypassed routes in italics) County Cork M8 motorway Mitchelstown Crosses the River Funshion Kildorrery – (R512) Farahy (R522) Skenakilla Cross Roads Terminates at the N72 3 km east of Mallow
Highway system
Roads in Ireland Motorways Primary Secondary Regional

The N73 road is a national secondary road in Ireland. It is wholly within County Cork, roughly between Mitchelstown and Mallow. The road is made up almost entirely of single carriageway with few overtaking opportunities and only a small amount of hard shoulder.

Route

32 km long, the N73 runs roughly east–west from its junction with the M8 motorway, bypassing Mitchelstown to the north via the Mitchelstown relief road, which opened in July 2006. The route then travels through Kildorrery, a small village and then on towards Mallow merging with the N72. There are no major improvements proposed for this route in the foreseeable future and only minor improvements have been made to date. On 25 May 2009, a Mitchelstown bypass (section of the single carriageway N8 road) was redesignated the N73 when the Mitchelstown-Fermoy section of the M8 motorway opened to traffic.

See also

• Roads in Ireland
• Motorways in Ireland
• National primary road
• Regional road

References

• Roads Act 1993 (Classification of National Roads) Order 2006 Archived 17 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine – Department of Transport